Ok so just a quick up date of what everyone is up to Nik,Cait and Shantelle have country champs coming up tomorrow at Harcourt.
The race is 2 laps of a 12k circuit followed by 1 lap of a 56k circuit...
hear a look at race profiles
12km Circuit 56km Circuit
As for Kate F as she is a non victorian.... she will be training up a storm to get her self ready for the
Fred Icke which is on the 2nd of june
so if your in or around Creswick next saturday give her a cheer as she go's past ....
hear's a look at the circuit 3lap
CSV_Creswick.htm
The next race the team will be doing is the 3ed round of the NRS which is Santos North Western Tour ,in and around Narrabri.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Monday, 7 May 2012
Tweed Heads
The good always comes with the bad, and I had been having such a good run with my health of late that I should have been a bit more cautious coming into the first NRS race of the year. The fact that I can now look back and see the tell tale signs of a virus coming on means I will take note of these signs sooner next time (hopefully) and avoid what occurred over the weekend. A big fat DNF next to my name, pretty disappointed, but you really shouldn't be racing when your morning HR is 60bpm, nearly double its normal Hr and your temperature is giving you hot and cold sweats so I only raced one miserable day of the battle of the border. On the positive side I got be be a helper for Nicole and Shantelle as they raced in B grade to gain some experience in tour racing. They both flourished and gained tremendous knowledge over the weekend, from what to do after a crash, how much time you can make up or lose on a decent and the fine art of hurting yourself till exhaustion just to stay in a criterium. I think Nicole wanted to murder me each time she came past in the criterium on the last day me yelling at her to get up the front and her legs screaming at her to stop, but she got through it nearly got dropped got back on and finished lucky 13th overall in the tour.
Full results can be found here.... http://my1.raceresult.com/details/index.php?page=4&eventid=10671&lang=en Shantelle also discovered a lot about racing in general and it was her first ever road tour so was great for her to get through the whole 3 days...
Some images thanks to Gill who helped us out over the couple of days as well as Kim Howard....
Next event is country's for Nicole, Shantelle and Cait, and Fred Icke for myself
Monday, 2 April 2012
NEWCASTLE
On Friday Nik, myself, our matching bikes and the awesome Subaru wagon headed off on the
road to Newcastle for a mini road trip to get some head space and have a race
at my club Hunter District’s state open. I had just received my bike the day
before leaving thanks to Bendigo cycles
and Specialized bikes being so quick at getting me back on the road following
my recent about incident with another car we don't talk about.
Podium girls, I like it when they aren't so tall
The road trip up was
quite eventful ranging from a brief stop at the inland submarine, a random man
at a road side rest stop with his knee totally popped out and dislocated and a
gorgeous 45minute ride in Goulburn to brake the trip up (utilising my local
knowledge of the bike shop/greengrocer/cafe in Goulburn to ensure we had good
coffee for the final 3 hour drive).
We arrived in Newcastle Friday night to a beautifully cooked
roast lamb with roast vegetables and beans and nice wine, all local produce
thanks to Gill’s great preparation. As well there was of course, the great
company.
Saturday we got to sleep in a little and headed off to my
favourite cafe in Newcastle, 3Bean, for an amazing breakfast and coffee to
start the day off in a calm manor we then went for a brief stroll along the
lake and headed home to kit up, prep up and ride out to Kooragang island in the
gorgeous summery 28 degree weather.
Off we headed for the 28km ride out; I’d forgotten how busy
the traffic was in Newcastle. On arriving Nicole realised how much of a local
celebrity I am haha…it was great to see all the riders from Newcastle, and to
have such big entries in all grades was awesome indeed. We had 20 girls in the
race, divided into A and B grade but all racing in the same race, for 7 laps of
the infamous 7km “gang”. Nik and I had a few pre-race plans, obviously wanting
at least one of us on the the podium but preferentially the 2 of us, obviously
we aim high.
The race got underway and as it was so warm and a smallish
field no one wanted to show their colours too early so Nik set a lovely steady
high tempo on the front to discourage any early attacks and to allow her to get
to know the course.
Thanks to Aaron Dial for this mid race pic
After 2 laps a few surges occurred however no one wanted to
continue on with a move until after 3.5laps I got away with a local rider Kelly
and we got a gap of 100m fairly quickly but the gap never grew more than that
and we were away for only ~5km before we were brought back, numerous small moves
were made over the rest of the course but it seemed most of the girls wanted a
print or didn’t want to work to keep moves away.
I was giving a lot of guidance to Nik throughout the
race, and had gotten a few funny looks from other girls in the race wondering why I was yelling at her,
but its all a learning curve and was a great experience for us to get to race
together and for me to be able to give her advice whilst racing.
Coming into
the sprint I was sitting second wheel and not rolling through for the last 3km,
a young local girl ,Alicia MacDonald, launched the first move in the sprint with still
900m to go, I let her get 15m on us before I jumped and followed as she was going
fast. When I got to her I thought it was to early to sprint but new I had to keep going then as everyone else was coming so sprinted for 800m and took the race out by a bike length.
Nik had just gotten on the back and had been about to come around underneath everyone when Alicia jumped.
Podium girls, I like it when they aren't so tallSunday, 25 March 2012
NAB 2012 Criterium
Sunday was BCS women's first state open race as a full team… there were butterflies, lots of toilet stops and a few abrupt words prior to the start due to pre-race nerves (this was only Kate F).
From now I will refer toKate Finegan spelt like with a K, and Cait Fraser Jones spelt with a C so as you don't get confused.
Kate was defending champ and wanting to replicate her win last year, however knew the field was a lot stronger with some internationals in there as well as double the number of riders. Nicole knew her fitness was coming along nicely, and Cait is not that fond of a Criterium so was unsure of how she would go… Race plan was to keep it together early, but ensure we had at least one of us in each of the moves, and if it was still together at about the half-way point Cait was to give it a go and try and rip the field apart. Within the first 10 minutes there had been a few minor attacks, then one of the Belgium girls went up the road, Kate followed within half a lap and the 2 dangled off the front by about 70m for 4 laps, before being joined by Cait, the other Belgium and Amy Bradley of Total Rush. This formed the break of the day, all 5 were working well together and at the 35minute mark overtook the remainder of the field who were all pulled from the race.
From now I will refer toKate Finegan spelt like with a K, and Cait Fraser Jones spelt with a C so as you don't get confused.
Kate was defending champ and wanting to replicate her win last year, however knew the field was a lot stronger with some internationals in there as well as double the number of riders. Nicole knew her fitness was coming along nicely, and Cait is not that fond of a Criterium so was unsure of how she would go… Race plan was to keep it together early, but ensure we had at least one of us in each of the moves, and if it was still together at about the half-way point Cait was to give it a go and try and rip the field apart. Within the first 10 minutes there had been a few minor attacks, then one of the Belgium girls went up the road, Kate followed within half a lap and the 2 dangled off the front by about 70m for 4 laps, before being joined by Cait, the other Belgium and Amy Bradley of Total Rush. This formed the break of the day, all 5 were working well together and at the 35minute mark overtook the remainder of the field who were all pulled from the race.
Fellow team members Nik and Shantelle had been in this group so got to stand on the sidelines and cheer/laugh at our pain. It was made easy by only needing to cheer for one name; we do what we can ;)
At 10minutes to go Cait asked me what do I want her to do?? I said whatever you like, knowing that she would then attack which was what I wanted her to do to, this would see if we could drop one or 2 of the others in the break, over the next 4 laps Cait and one of the Belgiums attacked a few times but no one was suffering enough to get dropped/strong enough to drop the others. The bell lap came around very qick and that second last corner was the key. Cait layed herself on the line keeping the pace up and I came around the second last corner shoulder to shoulder with the 2 Belgium’s but came out third best and held onto that position till the end. Cait came over the line in 5th place.
Thanks to Bendigo Best Cycling Photographer Darren Casey for the photo below
Thanks to Bendigo Best Cycling Photographer Darren Casey for the photo below
Cait powering around the course
Post race smiles
NAB 2012 winners, the band aid on the knee for Kate was a post race clumsy incident...Friday, 23 March 2012
SPECIALIZED WOMEN'S RIDE DAY
Shantelle,Kate and Nicole and honouree team member Cheryle (aka Kate's mum)had the pleasure of being involved in Bendigo Cyles Specialized womens day.
wow where to start it was amazing to see so many women on bike's .......... we had over 50 woha!!!!!!
we started of the day with a chat about bike maintenance from bike boy Brock. Then went on to
some safety stuff light,helmet gloves ect,and bike fit issues with Matt form coachprobikefit.com ,then it was time to head out on the bike so we split into three groups and we were off the girls loved it .
on return from our ride we were treated to coffee and cakes.........and some awesome prizes were given away everyone had a great day the buzz was unreal with all the girls looking forward to do more of these types of thing's ...
a big well done to Bendigo Cycles and Specialized for getting behind women on bike's .............
i am specialized are you ....?
stay tuned for some go pro footage of the day
wow where to start it was amazing to see so many women on bike's .......... we had over 50 woha!!!!!!
we started of the day with a chat about bike maintenance from bike boy Brock. Then went on to
on return from our ride we were treated to coffee and cakes.........and some awesome prizes were given away everyone had a great day the buzz was unreal with all the girls looking forward to do more of these types of thing's ...
a big well done to Bendigo Cycles and Specialized for getting behind women on bike's .............
i am specialized are you ....?
stay tuned for some go pro footage of the day
Friday, 2 March 2012
Womens GP, Cykel events
The things you do when racing is cancelled, as females we choose to spend money considering we couldn't win any at racing today....
Today was scheduled as the final race for the Women's Grand Prix criterium series in Cambeltown, Melbourne. However due to Victoria's lovely summer/autumn weather the races were called off as it was raining. Our car had been all packed up and we were on our way, we got to the Castlemaine turn off when we heard the sad news, one of our riders sooo keen she was already in Melbourne awaiting a start.
So instead in female style we went shoe shopping instead, with an ergo planned for the afternoon of course.
We were actually quite dissapointed about this as we had gone so well in all 3 previous races.
In round 3, our home ground race in February, Cait Fraser had achieved her best criterium result ever, after continuing to tell us all she couldn't ride a criterium to finish second by 200ths of a second in Division 1, and in Division 2 Nicole had demoralised the whole field by showing her strength and increasing the average speed of the pace by 5km/hr and Shantelle took out 2nd in the sprint to finish off with some good team work.
http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/local/sport/cycling/mcintosh-wins-womens-grand-prix-criterium-race-on-bendigo-east-circuit/2452353.aspx
Round 2 was in Casey Fields, Kate Finegan and Shantelle made the long road trip in heat of 40+ degrees to race. Shantelle forgot she was racing road and went onto the gravel in her prologue, and Kate was leading until the final riders pulled out some fast times. Pre-race discussions Kate and Shantelle agreed they needed to come out of the final corner first or second to have any chance of the win, yet Shantelle's sprinting prowess showed when she came from 6th back to come 2nd in division 2. Kate then took on division 1 and made the essential break of the day, and pulled out a win, she did come out of the corner first and however nearly made the fatal mistake of raising her arms too early but it doesn't matter how much you win by, as long as you cross that line first.
http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/news/local/sport/cycling/finegan-riding-high-in-grand-prix/2443595.aspx
Round 1 was at Melton and both Kate and Shantelle attended a course that was a specific criterium corners with some nice sweeping corners. Shantelle sprinted to an awesome win in Division 2, after being worried weather or not she would finish prior to racing. Kate was pipped to second both in the intermediate and final sprint by Nicole Whitburn, this meant game on.
We are a bit disappointed as the final round 4 we will now most likely be unable to attend as we will be participating in a womens specialised ride day in Bendigo. But these things happen.
Today was scheduled as the final race for the Women's Grand Prix criterium series in Cambeltown, Melbourne. However due to Victoria's lovely summer/autumn weather the races were called off as it was raining. Our car had been all packed up and we were on our way, we got to the Castlemaine turn off when we heard the sad news, one of our riders sooo keen she was already in Melbourne awaiting a start.
So instead in female style we went shoe shopping instead, with an ergo planned for the afternoon of course.
We were actually quite dissapointed about this as we had gone so well in all 3 previous races.
In round 3, our home ground race in February, Cait Fraser had achieved her best criterium result ever, after continuing to tell us all she couldn't ride a criterium to finish second by 200ths of a second in Division 1, and in Division 2 Nicole had demoralised the whole field by showing her strength and increasing the average speed of the pace by 5km/hr and Shantelle took out 2nd in the sprint to finish off with some good team work.
Round 2 was in Casey Fields, Kate Finegan and Shantelle made the long road trip in heat of 40+ degrees to race. Shantelle forgot she was racing road and went onto the gravel in her prologue, and Kate was leading until the final riders pulled out some fast times. Pre-race discussions Kate and Shantelle agreed they needed to come out of the final corner first or second to have any chance of the win, yet Shantelle's sprinting prowess showed when she came from 6th back to come 2nd in division 2. Kate then took on division 1 and made the essential break of the day, and pulled out a win, she did come out of the corner first and however nearly made the fatal mistake of raising her arms too early but it doesn't matter how much you win by, as long as you cross that line first.
Round 1 was at Melton and both Kate and Shantelle attended a course that was a specific criterium corners with some nice sweeping corners. Shantelle sprinted to an awesome win in Division 2, after being worried weather or not she would finish prior to racing. Kate was pipped to second both in the intermediate and final sprint by Nicole Whitburn, this meant game on.
We are a bit disappointed as the final round 4 we will now most likely be unable to attend as we will be participating in a womens specialised ride day in Bendigo. But these things happen.
INTRODUCING BCS
Welcome to the blog of the womens Building Chapion Squad based in Bendigo Central Victoria. We are a new team targeting local and state races for 2012, establishing ourselves as a regional, Central Victorian team, with the goal to be riding NRS in 2013. We are a diverse group of women all trying to achieve our own version of success in cycling and other aspects of our life.
We are currently recieving suppport from numerous businesses in various form. These are Burkinshaw roofing, Hot Designs clothing, Bendigo cycles and Coachprobikefit.com (Matt Wallace).
Our 4 main riders for the season are Nicole McNamara, Shantelle Maurer, Cait Fraser and Kate Finegan; we will also be having Carly McCoombe and Roz Bradley riding a couple of races for us throughout the year.
Nicole McNamara is possibly the newset member to cycling, taking up road cycling 3 years ago. Nicole's strong points in cycling are her ability to put high power out FOREVER, she would like to race some time trials and work on her tactical skills in 2012.
Shatelle Maurer is our youngers rider who as recently been coverted from the dark side (mountain biking) to road racing. She is in her final year of U19's, was staate MTB chapion and is one of the best wheel suckers in the peleton don't bother going on a training rider with her if you want to get a wheel sit.
Cait Fraser, an ex world level rower, and power house on the bike. Cait will ride anyone off her wheel if she try's (team mates included) and loves riding up a hill.
Kate Finegan, (the short Kate) a little pocket rocket who appears to be smiling often, but it may just be grimace of pain. Kate is a criterium specialist who loves to hurt herself and enjoys mixing it up with the boys just to annoy them whenever possible.
Carly McCoombe is a track specialist, with numerous national junior titles. Carly is making a come back after taking some time off to enjoy some of the finer things in life....and attend University on the side. It's lucky Carly can ride a bike, as she has been known to pull a muscle pumping up a tyre (we now know why she tried a little bit of rowing, so this muscle pulling doesn't occur again).
Roz Bradley is a mountain bike extraudinare and can handle a bike as good as the best of them, don't let her take 1m on a decent or she'll take 1km. Roz is also on the comeback trail after some time off being a mother.
Stay tuned to this blog for updates on racing and possibly other things as well...
We are currently recieving suppport from numerous businesses in various form. These are Burkinshaw roofing, Hot Designs clothing, Bendigo cycles and Coachprobikefit.com (Matt Wallace).
Our 4 main riders for the season are Nicole McNamara, Shantelle Maurer, Cait Fraser and Kate Finegan; we will also be having Carly McCoombe and Roz Bradley riding a couple of races for us throughout the year.
Nicole McNamara is possibly the newset member to cycling, taking up road cycling 3 years ago. Nicole's strong points in cycling are her ability to put high power out FOREVER, she would like to race some time trials and work on her tactical skills in 2012.
Shatelle Maurer is our youngers rider who as recently been coverted from the dark side (mountain biking) to road racing. She is in her final year of U19's, was staate MTB chapion and is one of the best wheel suckers in the peleton don't bother going on a training rider with her if you want to get a wheel sit.
Cait Fraser, an ex world level rower, and power house on the bike. Cait will ride anyone off her wheel if she try's (team mates included) and loves riding up a hill.
Kate Finegan, (the short Kate) a little pocket rocket who appears to be smiling often, but it may just be grimace of pain. Kate is a criterium specialist who loves to hurt herself and enjoys mixing it up with the boys just to annoy them whenever possible.
Carly McCoombe is a track specialist, with numerous national junior titles. Carly is making a come back after taking some time off to enjoy some of the finer things in life....and attend University on the side. It's lucky Carly can ride a bike, as she has been known to pull a muscle pumping up a tyre (we now know why she tried a little bit of rowing, so this muscle pulling doesn't occur again).
Roz Bradley is a mountain bike extraudinare and can handle a bike as good as the best of them, don't let her take 1m on a decent or she'll take 1km. Roz is also on the comeback trail after some time off being a mother.
Stay tuned to this blog for updates on racing and possibly other things as well...
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